Ai Policy

Meta drops 'train' from commercial terms after AI backlash: Meta has removed the word 'train' from its commercial Terms of Service after AI backlash. The company changed its AI scraping policy but will not add language respecting robots.txt.

AI Policy • Ars Technica AI

Meta's new terms may allow AI training on news sites from Oct. 30: Meta's new terms may let it crawl and scrape sites 'associated' with businesses that use its platforms, including news publishers, per Nieman Lab. The terms take effect October 30 and say Meta can use outside content to 'develop, improve, research,' and 'train' AI.

Tech Policy • The Verge AI

MagicLab's EchoPolicy-0 tops AI2's MolmoSpaces board with 75.4% manipulation success: MagicLab said its VLM agent framework EchoPolicy-0 averaged 75.4% across four MolmoSpaces tasks, and AI2's published leaderboard data lists it first. Its MagicBrain component reached 94.4% on the pick task.

AI & Robotics • Pandaily